Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology, Revised Edition

Intuitive Visioning

The basic difference between reflective visioning and intuitive visioning is that while pursuing reflective visioning, you are responding to the question “What can I get?” While this does not imply merely an incremental projection of growth and does enable a “jump” ahead of the conventional vision statement, it is still basically an intellectual or rational process. In other words, while it involves maximum possible stretching of your imagination into the future, it is inevitably tempered with realism. The process of intuitive visioning on the other hand implies responding to the question “What do I really want?” While responding to this question you do not keep the frame of reference of current reality or even what may be considered as realistic future possibility. It implies total resonance within yourself with whatever it is that you are doing in your life, with whatever are your basic urges and uncontaminated inner “dreams.” In other words, after you intellectually, rationally, or realistically arrive at a maximum stretch of your imagination in the context of the real world possibilities – that is, developing the reflective vision – you should enter another level of mental activity; namely, the “intuitive” level. Therein you access your own “inner world” through some specific mental – intuitive – processes for creating an intuitive vision.

As mentioned above, at the intuitive level you are not either locked into linear thinking or blocked by any so-called ...